See some of the articles published at the bottom of this page Since 2016, after an agreement between JGI Spain and the Department of Evolutionary Anthropology of the Max Planck Institute in Germany, the JGI Research Department was in charge of collecting detailed data for an important comparative study about the diverse ecological and ethological aspects of chimpanzee populations all over Africa, which included tool, isotope, genetic, diet, urine and pathogen samples, as well as a grid of camera traps around the Dindéfélo Community Nature Reserve. Fundacion Bioparchas also supported research & conservation activities in adjacent areas to identify and protect chimpanzee habitat. Three other studies carried out in the RNCD were presented at the VI Iberian Primatological Conference (October 2017). ![]() Studies in collaboration with researchers from Oxford Brookes University and the University of Oslo were presented at the European Federation for Primatology meeting in France (August 2017). ![]() To support the work of the main sites in the Reserve, a study of c himpanzee social networks in the RNCD was developed in collaboration with the University of Girona a study about laterality in chimpanzees (PANLAT) was carried out through the use of camera traps in collaboration with the Mona Foundation and other studies were developed about the nesting patterns of the Pan troglodytes verus subspecies in the RNCD and its surrounding areas. Also, the Research Department has launched a study of the chimpanzee microbiome, in collaboration with IRSI (AIDS Research Institute in Barcelona). Other projects have been developed with the support of the Copito de Nieve (Snowflake) research grant by the Fundación Zoo de Barcelona, a project that has been useful to evaluate the impact of tourism on the behaviour of chimpanzees in Dindéfélo. Subsequently, and thanks to the support given by Fundación Zoo de Barcelonathrough the PRIC grant, the Research Department has carried out different chimpanzee censuses and studies in the RNCD (i.e., a study of human/chimpanzee conflict), always bearing in mind and applying the best practices for field research and conflict that were established by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).įurthermore, since the chimpanzee population in the Dindéfélo Community Nature Reserve shares habitat with groups in Guinea, and since JGI has the objective of increasing the protection of this chimpanzee subspecies ( Pan troglodytes verus), the JGI in Senegal carried out an ecological characterization, a chimpanzee census and a socioeconomic study in the Subprefecture of Lebekere (Guinea), thanks to EAZA’s funding. The research and development activities were centred on the ecological characterization and the socioeconomic study for the establishment of the RNCD, both activities having been financed by the Fundación Biodiversidad and Wula Nafaa/USAID. The department focuses on the ecological monitoring of the chimpanzee groups in the Dindéfélo Community Nature Reserve (RNCD) and on the prospection of other areas for the implementation of the programme and the conservation of chimpanzee habitat. The research programme developed since 2009 has accompanied the conservation activities. Studies done by the JGIS in Senegal and Guinea Little by little, the Jane Goodall Institute Research and Conservation team started growing, based on this first group of researchers and volunteers. In March 2012 five members of the Roots&Shoots Madrid group arrived in Senegal and joined the research department and the programme in order to work in the new sites. All this was possible thanks to different international, national and local entities that supported the project from the very beginning. ![]() ![]() The prospects of different possible research locations included Guinea and another rural community, Goumbambere, adjacent to Dindéfélo. The research work of the Jane Goodall Institute started in 2009 when primatologist Liliana Pacheco settled in Dindéfélo. It was in Dindéfélo, a small village in the region, where the Jane Goodall Institute Spain established its headquarters to develop its conservation, research, sustainable development and educational programmes. This region is next to Guinea, a fact that increases the importance of the habitat conservation in order to ensure the connection between the chimpanzee groups in the area. In the year 2007, the then president of the Jane Goodall Institute Spain (JGIS) visited the region of Kédougou, the northernmost limit of the distribution area of the chimpanzees of the Pan troglodytes verus subspecies, which is critically endangered according to the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
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